A new report emphasizes what community college advocates have known for a long time: part-time students don’t have the same success rates as full-time students. While the national six-year college completion rate continues to increase,…
The Community College Research Center (CCRC) released two new blog posts today. The first one examines community college enrollment trends during the Great Recession as a lens to view the impacts of COVID-19 on enrollments this…
Colleges and universities made the transition to online learning seemingly overnight as campuses were shut down due to the current COVID situation. As with many community colleges, one strength of Feather River College (FRC) —…
It didn’t take long for participants of a summit last fall focused on developing more research opportunities for community college students to start mulling how they could not only keep the momentum going, but to…
With the end of the spring term quickly approaching, a wave of community colleges over the past few days has decided on how to handle commencements this spring, whether to continue running nearly all their…
The U.S. Education Department (ED) last week released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on distance education, the credit hour, competency-based education and other items falling under the general category of “innovation.” The rules…
College of DuPage (COD) student and Illinois National Guard Pfc. Sabine Gonzalez knew she could be deployed at any time around the U.S., but she never thought it would be to help in the fight…
As we begin National Community College Month, it’s safe to say this is not the April any of us expected. The COVID-19 pandemic has catapulted the entire nation into a new reality, including higher education…
For Anne Kress, president of Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA), allowing students to take courses in the current term on a pass/non-pass basis instead of traditional grades was almost essential. “We need to be real…
Leéna Boone, who enrolled in her first class at Lorain County Community College (LCCC) in Ohio when she was just 12 years old, was recently named one of the top 20 community college students in…